Synchronization primitives for large shared-memory multiprocessors need to minimize latency and contention. Software queue-based locks address these goals, but suffer if a process...
Robert W. Wisniewski, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, ...
Formal sequentialization is introduced as a rewriting process for the reduction of parallelism and internal communication statements of distributed imperative programs. It constru...
Miquel Bertran, Francesc-Xavier Babot, August Clim...
The two-layered distributed clustered server architecture consisting of a control server and a group of storage servers has been widely used to support multimedia file systems. Wi...
Seung-Ho Park, Si-Yong Park, Gwang Moon Kim, Ki-Do...
Synchronization operations, such as fence and locking, are used in many parallel operations accessing shared memory. However, a process which is blocked waiting for a fence operat...
Darius Buntinas, Amina Saify, Dhabaleswar K. Panda...
The new generation of television viewers is currently being confronted and becoming acquainted with a series of technological developments in the realm of consumer electronics and...